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Doug Meil commented on HBASE-1990:
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I'll give it a shot. :-)
Two questions:
1) what timeframe? (i.e., I'm expecting to try this 'soon' but not by tomorrow
morning). Even though this is small, this would be my first attempt at an
HBase change and I don't want to screw it up.
2) I am assuming that the value is still going to take 'byte[]'. I think it
would be nice to have methods that also took String (et al.) and "did the right
thing" internally, but the .get methods would get a little more complicated
since overloading doesn't work with return values (and they would probably need
to be something like getString and getInt, etc.). Any changes along this line
I think would require a separate JIRA ticket.
> Add methods accepting strings for family/qualifier in client
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>
> Key: HBASE-1990
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-1990
> Project: Hadoop HBase
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: client
> Affects Versions: 0.20.0
> Reporter: Doug Meil
> Assignee: Andrew Purtell
> Priority: Minor
> Fix For: 0.21.0, 0.20.3
>
>
> Consider the following client code...
> byte b[] = result.getValue( Bytes.toBytes("family"),
> Bytes.toBytes("qualifier") );
> put.add( Bytes.toBytes("family"), Bytes.toBytes("qualifer"),
> Bytes.toBytes( "value") );
> ... the requirement to supply family and qualifiers as bytes causes code to
> get cluttered and verbose. At worst, it scares peoples un-necessarily about
> HBase development, and at best, developers inevitably will get tired of doing
> all this casting and then add their own wrapper classes around the HBase
> client to make their code more readable.
> I would like to see something like this in the API...
> byte b[] = result.getValue( "family"), "qualifier" );
> put.add( "family", "qualifer", Bytes.toBytes( "value") );
> ... where the Hbase client can perform the required Bytes.toBytes()
> conversion behind the scenes.
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